June 12, 2018

Seattle Backs Off

Their city council unanimously passed a $275 per employee head tax last month, which applied to large employers like Amazon and Starbucks. But much to the outrage of council socialists, the council's set to repeal it now.

Councilwoman Teresa Mosqueda, one of four sponsors of the tax, said she could not support repealing the tax without "a replacement strategy to house and shelter our neighbors experiencing homelessness."

"We cannot wait months or until next year for another proposal or process while people are sleeping in our parks and on our streets," she said in a statement.

Councilwoman Kshama Sawant said on Twitter that the repeal "is a capitulation to bullying by Amazon" and other big business" and called it a "backroom betrayal" that didn't involve her office.

Sawant needs to go back home to India. She's an avowed communist, but was somehow elected to Seattle City Council anyway. Presumably because regressives there are all into "diversity".